I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 315 Chapter 188-189: New layout, chip manufacturing! (Two chapters in total)

At this time, what Gao Huaijun did not expect was that the range-extender A-class sedan of the first-generation car announced that the research and development was nearing completion, and this product would be launched simultaneously in China and the United States in two months!

Some time ago, the prices of A-class cars and B-class cars were reduced at the same time, only after achieving very small transaction results in China.

Since spitting out the past doesn't work, then just tear it down and start over, establish a new new energy vehicle company, and play with this so-called range extender vehicle.

This officially announced A-class model is also the first company in the world and in the entire traditional automobile industry to start playing with range extender cars!

For a time, world public opinion was in an uproar.

In the past, range extender cars, although Hillhouse vehicles have made a lot of noise in China.

But the companies that follow up are not small car companies that sell 10,000 or 20,000 vehicles a year.

Or just press and hold the car to casually test the water, but I won’t put in a lot of effort to specialize in this model. Basically, I will play with the oil-to-electric model of the oil car model, and I will not make a new addition. Programmer model platform.

All models like Hillhouse Vehicles are all based on the range extender model platform, which is unique!
This is a golden period of development in which competing products are still unknown, but Hillhouse is already iterating rapidly!

Whether it is establishing a new new energy company or relocating a R&D center to China.

In this way, a company that is considered a giant in the eyes of many Chinese and even many people in the industry actually wants to follow the vehicle construction model of Hillhouse Vehicles. That is really a groundbreaking thing.

[I don’t quite agree with what you are saying. Now when the country is planning the next five-year plan, it is already planning to use charging piles in cities. Current range extender production companies include Hillhouse, Long Press, BYD, and in the future They will all become pioneers in making pure electric trains. Of course, the first batch will be cannon fodder for sure, but it is not certain whether they will be cannon fodder in the future. Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, don’t bully young people into poverty! 】

[Old Liu is right. As long as the problem of charging anxiety is solved, the rest is to reduce the dimensionality and bypass the lifeline of oil. This is a difficult problem that this country must solve. This is a matter that no matter who is in power, will deal with it seriously. 】

Unbelievable!

At this time, these automobile companies with strong forward inertia will get serious and discuss how to deal with this complex situation.

And this person who values ​​​​is not the last BBA in the later generations, the one who became the official car, but was unknown in the previous life, and now it has begun to decline, and it is necessary to gradually launch the first-line model for the Chinese market!
It seems that the existence of the big variable Hillhouse Group and Zheng Zhenxi’s experience working in the Hillhouse Vehicle Direct Sales Store really affected the final decision-making direction of the line-generation vehicles.

However, this incident shocked China far more than foreign countries!
After all, first-generation cars are just ordinary members of the public in foreign countries, but in China, they are giant-level existences.

【It’s not just that I can’t tell! The current convenience of fuel vehicles is based on decades of gas station construction. All 10 gas stations are not natural! This is not only the case in China, but also in other countries. This will form a huge and terrifying rentier group. This group of people is not only the gas station, but also the people behind the fuel processing and transportation of oil. They are all interested. Partly, it's not that electric trains are bad, but that the people in this interest group are too large, so large that no matter who they are, they really can't deal with them. This doesn't include the large group of people in the fuel vehicle company. 】

【Fuck! Unexpectedly, this first-line automobile group would follow up? I have always felt that the range extender car is an auxiliary track. In front of the fuel car track, it is an existence that cannot be said at all. 】

However, this is such a golden age, and now the first person to pay attention suddenly appears.

[Indeed, the current range-extender car is a transitional product, and it may disappear one day. Pure electric cars require a variety of supporting facilities, and the most critical charging piles, which can be parked in communities, companies, etc. It can be installed in markets, shopping malls and other places. This is a huge project, which is equivalent to rebuilding 10 gas stations. This is simply a very scary thing. 】

[I am from the north. I think this pure electric new energy vehicle has a long way to go. The issue of battery life is not the root cause that hinders the development of electric vehicles. It is charging, charging, charging! In an emergency, the fuel truck will leave as soon as possible. If it runs out of fuel on the way, go to the gas station and you will be resurrected with full health in five minutes! This is also the core reason why this Hillhouse Vehicle has always only made range extender cars and has never considered making pure electric cars! 】

This is simply incredible!

Originally, this era will be extended for a while, until Hillhouse Vehicle's products burst out with huge energy, directly pulling Hillhouse Vehicle to a place where it can compete with the world's top ten, these large foreign companies will pay attention to it. degree.

Although within the industry, we know that line-generation cars are gaining momentum and they must enter the new energy vehicle track to stop the decline in development.

You know, only Huaguo Automobile Company imitates other automobile companies. Where are other giant-level automobile companies that imitate Huaguo companies?

[Indeed, I think the current line-generation automobile group is in desperate need of treatment. Hillhouse Vehicles is just a meteor-shaped enterprise. Whether it is now or in the future, going astray is going astray, and it will definitely not be as good as the right path. , the development of the fuel vehicle track is good! 】

For the first time, it also triggered heated discussions among people in the industry.

However, even so, being able to establish a new new energy vehicle department is a very courageous thing for a company like Line Generation that has been established for decades.

These all require internal interest groups to make huge concessions before they can be achieved!

But after Gao Huaijun learned about this, he smiled calmly and seemed not to take it too seriously.

Line-generation cars themselves are not in the new energy track.

Whatever they do, they will develop new energy vehicles in the shadow of fuel vehicles.

The final result was basically unsatisfactory and turned into a completely different skin-changing product.

This also requires them to break their heads in the market, and only after they are beaten to a bloody head will they slowly iterate several generations of products and slowly move closer to Hillhouse Vehicle's products.

However, in the construction of intelligent matrix, especially the ecological matrix of artificial intelligence.

They are so far apart!
Only the beautiful country can match China's engineer bonus advantage. Compared with other countries, it is so far behind that there is no comparison at all!
On the basis of such conscious efforts to deepen the ecological moat, Gao Huaijun is not afraid of other companies taking a hard stand on the new energy track!

This is not because he is confident in his own abilities and the technology of Hillhouse Group, but because the ecological matrix of Hillhouse Group has been established and the framework has been completed. At the same time, he has raised the industry threshold.

Anyone who wants to get in has to face the software moat, hit his head and bleed, and be prepared to bleed all the time.

At the same time, when these automobile companies enter, it is actually a good time for the new energy track to continue to expand.

Now that new energy vehicles are developing so rapidly, Gao Huaijun also requires Hillhouse Vehicles to pay attention to social risks and be prepared for product fine-tuning.

And just when the industry was targeting line-generation cars and entering the virtual new energy track with a high profile, a giant beast was pulling up a huge flood.

Gao Huaijun had quietly appeared in the Magic City and stopped in an inconspicuous open space next to the Magic City R&D Center.

Gao Huaijun looked at the deserted open space next to him and nodded with satisfaction. Chip manufacturing companies are completely different from ordinary companies.

During construction.

In order to avoid the impact of vibrations from the surrounding environment on the production plant, more than 3000 piles were driven into the foundation of the chip manufacturing plant.

A one-meter-thick core cap was integrally cast on the pile foundation, and an isolation belt was dug around the factory building.

In order to test the impact of vibrations from the surrounding environment on the factory building, the builders needed to drive a dozen fully loaded large trucks around the construction site.

At the same time, the floor of the dust-free workshop of more than 1 square meters must be aligned with lasers to ensure that the height error does not exceed the thickness of a 5-cent coin, so that the production equipment can operate smoothly and at high speed.

If dust is to be prevented from adversely affecting chip production quality, the diameter of dust particles must not exceed one-third of the chip line width.

In other words, if the line width is to be 0.25 microns, the dust-free workshop must control dust above 0.09 microns.

The minimum diameter of dust visible to the naked eye is about 50 microns, which shows how clean the dust-free workshop that produces chips must be.

In order to prevent external air pollution, the dust-free workshop must maintain a certain room pressure difference with the outside world.

This is why people often say that the cost of building a dust-free workshop is high, and the cost of maintenance is even higher.

Therefore, the site of a chip manufacturing factory has higher requirements than that of an ordinary factory.

At this time, a blank piece of wasteland is more suitable for the Hillhouse Group than the land that has been completely completed in the four to four and seven links and one level in the city center.

"My idea is to build a chip manufacturing plant in an open space next to the chip R&D center. Now there is a plot of land near the lake in the fourth phase of the project. I am very satisfied!" Gao Huaijun said with a smile on his face.

The relevant officials of the Magic City present also had smiles on their faces when they heard what Gao Huaijun said.

This project can even be said to be the No. 1 super project in the Magic City this year.

If somewhere, the man in front of me would be unhappy today.

The leaders of Magic City can definitely make them unhappy for the rest of their lives!
"We also know that chip production requires a lot of water! We went to Daiwan specifically and learned that Taiwan Electric Power consumes about 8000 million tons of water every year to produce chips, which is almost equivalent to the total water demand of 92 water cubes. So we designated this place, and this lake is connected to the Huangpu River and then to the Yangtze River!”

"If you build a small tap water treatment plant yourself and don't use too much, we can give you green channel approval!"

Leader Lin, who was managing the country on the side, said with a smile.

Gao Huaijun was overjoyed when he heard this!

This small tap water treatment plant, at least, will save Hillhouse millions of dollars in investment a year.

These millions, the cost is directly converted into income!
So why does chip manufacturing require so much water?

In fact, the reason is very simple. There are very small impurities on the surface of the silicon wafer, which must be cleaned with a large amount of water and chemical solvents. But this water is not ordinary water, but ultrapure water.

As the name suggests, it is super pure water that does not contain any metal ions or impurities and does not conduct electricity. It is 1000 times cleaner than tap water and is so pure that even fish cannot survive.

Because the chip circuit is very small, if ordinary water is used, it will contain trace amounts of impurities, which will cause a short circuit inside the semiconductor circuit, so ultrapure water must be used for cleaning.

In addition, as chip manufacturing processes improve, more water is required. And in order to enhance the cleaning effect, the cleaning steps will be increased accordingly.

For example, under the 90nm process node process, only about 90 cleaning steps are needed to achieve a good yield. But when it comes to the 65nm process node, the cleaning steps increase to about 140 steps.

Therefore, the use of this water must be increasing!
Now this hidden place can avoid the surveillance of interested people and can use a large amount of water resources. It is natural to kill two birds with one stone.

"What about electric energy? How can we cooperate with the Magic City?" Gao Huaijun then asked a more core question!

You must know that Taiwan and Taiwan's electricity consumption reached 2019 billion kilowatt-hours in 143. The entire electricity consumption is equivalent to 1/10 of the electricity consumption of the entire Daiwan Province!

One enterprise consumes more electricity than 200 million people!
This is really scary!

The core reason here is that manufacturing chips requires an ultra-clean production environment.

If the ultra-clean production environment of chip production is contaminated, the chip wafers on the production line may be directly scrapped.

The maintenance of an ultra-clean production environment is also very power-consuming. A particle of sand can destroy the entire panel. Therefore, in order to maintain an ultra-clean production environment, chip production requires a lot of electricity every year.

Moreover, lithography machines consume a lot of power. As the process changes, the power consumption will be even greater!

The power consumption of EUV is an astronomical figure!
Therefore, electricity is the most critical production factor before water.

"This question..." Leader Lin looked at Leader Chen, the deputy leader of Modu who was standing aside.

This kind of cross-provincial coordination still involves the electricity demand of a super power-consuming household.

How can you be sure about a little guy like him?

You know, the national power supply is a chess game, and the West-East Power Transmission Project is a huge undertaking.

For such a project, basically every kilowatt-hour of electricity is used, and under the premise of the current economic development and the shortage of electricity demand, complex communication and coordination are required for every kilowatt-hour of electricity!
(End of this chapter)